Investing in
the business of
entertainment.

Reel Capital Entertainment brings investor money to independent film. Our goal is twofold: to make great movies, and to make good money for our investors while doing it.

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How we work

Two ways we put money into a picture.

  1. 1

    Equity

    We invest in pictures from producers we've vetted. Before we commit, we work with you to pre-sell distribution rights, so contracts cover as much of the budget as possible. We take a share of what the film earns from there.

    • Production equity
    • Co-financing
    • Presales before the shoot
  2. 2

    Structured finance

    The less glamorous side, and the part that gets everyone paid. We lend against your tax credits, your signed sales contracts and your unsold territories, and we bridge you to bank financing that's on its way.

    • Tax-credit loans
    • Presale and unsold-territory loans
    • Bridge loans

What we look for

We only back pictures we believe in.

Every project goes through a rigorous vetting process, and we invest only in the ones we have the utmost confidence in. Each one gets the same six questions.

Marketability
Is there a clear audience and a way to reach it?
Team
Have the producer and director delivered before?
Talent
Does the cast move the needle with buyers?
Distribution
Is there a credible path to sales, presales, or a platform?
Revenue
Do the projections hold up when we push on them?
Structure
Where does our money sit and what secures it?

Projects

Replacer

Replacer
Image: Noovo Moi

A troubled DJ stranded in Montreal falls in with an alluring artist and the friends who run his underground radio station.

Director
Avan Jogia
Cast
Halsey, Karl Glusman, Juliette Gariépy
Genre
Horror
Status
Post-production

In the press

A Body in the Woods

A Body in the Woods
Image: C2 Motion Picture Group

A turn-of-the-century folk horror about a woman living deep in the Marshall Woods.

Director
Stephen Cognetti
Cast
Emma Roberts
Genre
Folk horror
Status
Post-production

In the press

For investors

Film investing has been a closed room.

Most people never get offered a seat. We offer one, in film and in live entertainment, with the risk worked down before your money goes in.

Access
We pool capital into professionally managed funds, so you get into deals you wouldn't see alone, on better terms than you'd get alone.
Less risk
Every film investment carries risk. We reduce it the way any careful investor would: vetted producers, distribution sold before the shoot, and loans secured by contracts and tax credits.
Two ways to earn
Equity gives you a share of what a picture earns. Lending earns interest along the way. We do both, so the fund isn't riding on one hit.
Being there
Festivals, premieres and award nights for the pictures you helped make, and time with the directors, the producers and the cast. People pay for that. For our investors it comes with the investment.

Talk to us about investing

Let's talk.

Have a project?

Send us the script, the budget and who's attached. We invest and we lend, and we'll give you a straight answer.

Want to invest?

Call us. We'll walk you through how our funds work and what we're backing now.

Phone
312-505-9698
Office
1220 Kensington Road, #220
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523